RoninMacbeth 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪

I still remember when Israeli far-right politicians whipped up a riot in defense of soldiers being held in a military prison who were accused of sexually abusing Palestinian prisoners. It's like GWoT mania on steroids.

This article only further confirms my belief that the Republican Party has not been worth a good gods damn since 1908 at the very latest.

Also lol at MacArthur's own soldiers hating his fucking guts. Usually the appeal of the charismatic general is that his men like him.

this is true but like, i think if you're in zoomer spaces you have definitely seen an uptick in anti-semitism on gen z platforms in my experience

I must say, I think this is a bad development.

"Tee hee my politics are kinda confused" no they are not, your politics are the socialism of fools.

The popularists want every candidate to have a Sister Souljah moment, which they imagine as a rebuke of wokeism – but a really effective modern-day Sister Souljah moment would be rebuking the centrist Democratic leadership that everyone hates.

A boat builds up speed, hits trampoline, does a cool backflip, then nails the landing to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

"Sisu: Road to Revenge" (2025)

Except now the Democrats are, like, most of the world including all of Western Europe.

I think everyone has just been thinking "there's no way Trump would be that crazy, right? Right?" and that there's no way they may be harmed. Which, frankly, seems short-sighted to me.

Another brilliant way to inspire confidence in the US. "Yeah come to the World Cup in the United States! We'll murder your team, maybe! Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Though frankly if the last fourteen months didn't give anyone second thoughts I doubt this will either.

Stupid, silly children, helping ruin the country for the thrill of being naughty.

glad these people are shifting politically but i really think it's telling that these ideas seemed like fun fashion choices so long as they seemed abstract or affected someone else, usually poorer and more marginalized.

it's only when they affected *you* specifically that it became serious.

They are people who thought a single Youtuber, Anita Sarkeesian, somehow destroyed the (still existing, indeed thriving) videogame industry.

Some of them literally want her dead because of that belief, and they think it would be funny if she were.

Jess is entirely correct, but there's more: a lit review is also a reflective exercise alongside a communicative one. The process of creating a lit review helps researchers understand what they are contributing and why it matters. Automating this process makes research less thoughtful.

There's one on every group, I swear.

Well, they do have a certain expertise with teenage girls in perilous situations.

Why, Bret? Why must we assume that?

people dont want to hear this but cold war USA and USSR are two wings of the same civilization

Look, academia is probably not going to work out, and I will have an MLIS and a History MA by the time this is done. I would absolutely work as a new Woke 2.0 fed.

When I am president I will make taking your starter out of your lineup punishable by being put in the stocks for a day.

I have never, ever, not once, removed my starter Pokemon from my lineup. The very idea repulsed me, they are my most loyal friend and I will stick with them through thick or thin.

A conflict designed to be between some of the worst people on the planet. Hell the Russians are also sharing intelligence with the Iranians so even they're involved too.

Titus from Eliphas' Space Marine 2 Google Translate video shaking the hands of his companions, captioned as follows: [TETA BAG] Man, we learned nothing and changed nothing.

American voters after another Republican presidential administration in the 21st century involves starting a catastrophic war in the Middle East, law enforcement overreach, and a spiraling economy.

(image source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=myd0...)

Noah Smith in the 19th century would scream that the Democratic party is a puppet of Romish popery because they have a base of urban Catholic immigrants.

No, I can imagine the end of the Sixth Party System. One might make the case it has ended already, I fully believe it will end at some point by 2040 or so. The issue is that for the next few election cycles, the instability and lack of a real political consensus will just exacerbate our problems.

Until you have a situation where the Republicans are underwater on every issued compared to the Democrats and the majority of business, the law, and the press treat GOP government as a catastrophe to be averted, we will be right back here by 2034.

Voters are way too willing to let the Republicans slide on basically everything; they are still more trusted on economics, national security, and immigration despite having been terrible on all of these. Worse still, so are institutions, which reflexively defer to or favor Republicans.

The speed with which this country will forget any of this happened, even if Trump leaves disgraced with a 10% approval, will shock you

The issue is this: it can, it probably will. But I think it will take a while, during which time we will continue to see political breakdown.

You read the news like "White House surprised Iran fires missiles in war. Investors bet on the Money Fairy turning sea mines into cotton candy" and it's that scene in Downfall where Hitler is moving imaginary armies on the map.

"OK, but THIS time we can effect regime change and end the war with a devastating campaign of aerial bombardment!"